[rescue] PCMCIA ethernet adapters & modems

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 10:22:33 CST 2006


der Mouse wrote:
>>PCMCIA cards are useless if the pigtails are missing.  Fish out the
>>ones with cables and bin the rest.
> 
> 
> Um, I disagree.
> 
> Say I have an Ethernet card, with dongle.  The card fries.  Another
> such card would then be terribly useful, even if it doesn't come with
> its own dongle.

Also, 3com and Xircom dongles tend to be readily available brand new in 
certain stores.  And they only cost about $5.

Peace...  Sridhar



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